Your scummy Firefox hangs when it arbitrarily decides to update its version. Why not have it send a popup message warning the user so they can close gracefully and safe their work?

1) This site sucks beyond belief. I tried to click on the "About" button to findthe current version of Firefox and couldn't find it.
When I came back here, the text I had entered in this window had vanished.
LEARN HOW TO F*CKING PROGRAM.
2) The *original* problem was that I was surfing and suddenly the whole computer went very slow, with Firefox altogether unresponsive. I lost some work. WHY DON'T YOU WARN THE USER AND ALLOW THEM TO CHOOSE WHEN TO INSTALL UPDATES?

Have you considered the Flash update which was released a few days before the Firefox 3.6.14 update may be a big part of this problem?
Try re-installing the 10.1 r102 version of Flash and see how it Firefox is.

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At this point we want to pinpoint exactly where in your code this behavior is originating from. Try running the included examples which can be found here:
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\MeasurementStudio\CVI\samples\IMAQ\Display
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\MeasurementStudio\CVI\samples\Vision\1.GettingStarted
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Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox
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I understand that Firefxo is hanging even though you have updated. There was another security release for Flash today as they are addressing some major security issues this week.
I would recommend changing your Flash plugin to a click to play status. Go into about:plugins and click "Always Ask to Activate" for your flash player.

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this is the third time i've had this problem with firefox...
firefox hangs when trying to download images, files, etc. the right click context menu opens (with bookmark, save page, save image, etc options) but after selecting an option, save image or whatever, the actual save as dialogue box doesn't open and firefox locks up.
many pages say to open the download pane and clear the history... i can't do that as trying to open the download pane locks it up, too. as does trying to open any other dialogues.
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the second time i just happened to be rebuilding my system, so i just did a fresh install on a fresh OS.
this time i can't seem to resolve the problem with uninstall and re-install...
help?

found out what was doing it!
after trying firefox safe mode and windows safe mode and any number of other things i'd kinda given up for a bit there, but i woke from a dream in the middle of the night thinking "based on the behaviour involved it *must* be something in the shell that's causing this." (sorry, i dream in geek.)
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Hello. Im having bad performance issues since upgrading to 3.6.3 which I've never experienced before. I appreciate you cannot help me due to extremely poor detail on my behalf. I thought it worth asking for possible remedy in the hope that its a problem experienced by many.
The problem is more likely to occur when many Firefox windows & tabs are open and other memory hungry packages ie GTA Libery City are using all available memory resource.
Firefox will either not respond ( wont maximise window ) or the Firefox window appears, navigation icons are visible but remainder of page is blank/white. The symptons are very similar to any package running in windows thats forced to wait whilst windows pages memory.
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I have noticed that more tabs/windows open the greater the probability of a problem and im fairly certain any webpage running java increases probability of a problem. This isnt caused by insufficient hardware resources because other packages ie uTorrent respond without problem in a split second.
I can wait from 10 seconds to 2 minutes before FF begins to respond. Sometimes I have to close FF totally.
I've read FAQs http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+hangs#Hang_loading_every_window and well the FF open a long time to shutdown/restart and hmm it could be said power cycling pc or restarting FF is a solution, but those kind of solutions faded away with Windows98.
I dont plan to start changing task priorities or setting CPU affinity etc as a permanent solution.
Im thinking solutions available are:
Reload an older version of FF.
But before I do, I thought I would post and see if its a problem due to be fixed or if you think the problem is worth a deeper look and wish me to provide more data.
I apologise for reporting a problem in such a vague manner but Im struggling to find any facts that I believe are relevant and usefull to you. I susoect you will be unable to help..
But anyway.. a Huge Thankyou to all the peeps who've contributed to making FF a top quality program.
== This happened ==
Not sure how often
== Since automatic update to v3.63

Reverting to an old version of FF worked!!! WHOOHOOOOO!!!!!!

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I just had that problem today and although it unfortunately probably won't help you minus47, (as you said disabling your Add-ons didn't help) I tracked my problem down to 'Fierr' as the culprit and disabling it fixed it.
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My Airport Time Capsule only works when I turn off and turn on, but I think this may end up with the unit. What can this happening and how to solve?

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Hello to all, good day, sorry my english google, but it is the tool I have at the moment. I'm having trouble with my Time Capsule Airport, I made all the settings according to the manual, but there has been a connection problem with my iMac. When I finish my work I turn off the imac and then again when they return to work and care, it can not connect to Time Capsule Airport, making it impossible to remove the files and make back up by Time Machine only works when I turn off and turn on the Airport Time Capsule , but I think this may end up with the unit. What can this happening and how to solve? Thank you.
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In the airport utility bring up your Time Capsule.
Simply post the screenshots here.
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Use WPA2 Personal security with 10-20 character pure alphanumeric password.
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OS X Mavericks: Time Machine problems
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After upgrading to 27, firefox will not start. Saw an error message during the upgrade process.

After upgrading to 27, firefox will not start. Saw an error message during the upgrade process but cannot remember.
Tried to run firefox.exe -P but receive error message:
XML Parsing error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://mozapps/content/profile/profileSelection.xul
Line number 18, Column 1:
<dialog
^
Running on Windows XP SP3. No problem whatsoever before upgrading to 27. Sending this from Chrome as I cannot open Firefox at all.

Thanks jschaer2000: after starting it once in safe mode, I closed Mozilla and tried several restarts in normal mode. So far, all worked:-)
Thank you very much again.
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HT2305 When I am trying to update my iPad 2 via syncing it with my PC, I get the following error message: "iPad software update server could not be contacted." Any ideas?

When I am trying to update my iPad 2 via syncing it with my PC, I get the following error message: "iPad software update server could not be contacted." Any ideas?

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ATtempt to power off your device and power it back on, if that doesn't work reset all settings should resolve it for you

Your scummy Firefox hangs when it arbitrarily decides to update its version. Why not have it send a popup message warning the user so they can close gracefully and safe their work?

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